Robert Krulwichhttp://kacu.org
en2 Ways To Think About Nothing, One Mo' Time http://kacu.org/post/2-ways-think-about-nothing-one-mo-time
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCWh3IFtDQ</p>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 09:48:00 +0000Robert Krulwich43650 at http://kacu.org2 Ways To Think About Nothing, One Mo' Time 'Murdersquishing' Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous Hornetshttp://kacu.org/post/murdersquishing-them-death-how-little-bees-take-enormous-hornets
I know, I know. You have Putin to worry about, ISIS to worry about, Britain's near breaking, Washington's broken, and the globe keeps getting warmer — so why bring up <a href="http://eol.org/data_objects/26500100">Japanese giant hornets</a>? You have worries enough. But I can't help myself. I've got to mention these hornets because, as bad as they are — and they are very, very bad ...<p>... this story has a happy ending.<p><strong>Hornets From Hell</strong><p>Japanese giant hornets have large yellow heads, enormous eyes, and they eat bees. "Eat" is too polite.Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:55:00 +0000Robert Krulwich43397 at http://kacu.org'Murdersquishing' Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous HornetsHowling Babies Drove Prehistoric Warriors Into Battle?http://kacu.org/post/howling-babies-drove-prehistoric-warriors-battle
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm-sQnazFAQ</p>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:03:00 +0000Robert Krulwich43198 at http://kacu.orgHowling Babies Drove Prehistoric Warriors Into Battle?What Makes A Star Starry? Is It Me?http://kacu.org/post/what-makes-star-starry-it-me
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4</p>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:51:00 +0000Robert Krulwich43151 at http://kacu.orgWhat Makes A Star Starry? Is It Me?Souls Tumbling In The Lighthttp://kacu.org/post/souls-tumbling-light
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQ2msn0OR0</p>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:44:00 +0000Robert Krulwich43074 at http://kacu.orgSouls Tumbling In The LightMapping What You Cannot See, Cannot Know, Cannot Visithttp://kacu.org/post/mapping-what-you-cannot-see-cannot-know-cannot-visit
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo</p>Sun, 07 Sep 2014 10:47:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42933 at http://kacu.orgMapping What You Cannot See, Cannot Know, Cannot VisitBuilding Me: A Puzzlementhttp://kacu.org/post/building-me-puzzlement
It's a puzzle — the deepest puzzle I know. The question is: What are we?<p>One <a href="http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/my-own-personal-nothingness">answer</a>, from physicist-novelist <a href="http://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/alan-lightman">Alan Lightman</a>, is we are stuff. Just stuff.<p><blockquote><p>"Let me explain. A highly unpleasant idea, but one that has been accepted by scientists over the last couple of centuries, is that we human beings, and all living beings, are <em>completely</em> material. That is, we are made of material atoms, and only material atoms.Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:03:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42866 at http://kacu.orgGlenn Gould In Rapturehttp://kacu.org/post/glenn-gould-rapture
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ</p>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:03:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42821 at http://kacu.orgGlenn Gould In RaptureRoadways You Can Install Like Throw Rugshttp://kacu.org/post/roadways-you-can-install-throw-rugs
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCLMePjK-Y</p>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 08:57:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42400 at http://kacu.orgRoadways You Can Install Like Throw RugsWhen Venus Was Filled With Venusians — 50 Billion Of Themhttp://kacu.org/post/when-venus-was-filled-venusians-50-billion-them
What a difference 180 years makes.<p>Back in the 1830s, a Scottish minister and amateur astronomer named <a href="https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati15stepuoft#page/18/mode/2up">Thomas Dick</a> tried to calculate the number of intelligent creatures in the universe. He assumed that all heavenly bodies supported intelligent life, maybe not exactly like us, but similar to us in size and habits of living.Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:49:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42309 at http://kacu.orgWhen Venus Was Filled With Venusians — 50 Billion Of ThemIf You're Born In The Sky, What's Your Nationality? An Airplane Puzzlerhttp://kacu.org/post/if-youre-born-sky-whats-your-nationality-airplane-puzzler
Here's a puzzle I bet you've never pondered.<p>Imagine you are very, very pregnant. For the purposes of this mind game, you are a married American woman (with an American spouse) and you are about to board a plane and, pregnant as you are, they let you on.<p>Your flight, on Lufthansa Airlines, will leave Frankfurt, Germany, and travel nonstop to the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. Germany is cold, wet and unhappy-making, and you crave the aquamarine waters, the balmy skies of the Maldives.<p>You take off.Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:03:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42258 at http://kacu.orgIf You're Born In The Sky, What's Your Nationality? An Airplane PuzzlerWhen Snails Lose Their Wayhttp://kacu.org/post/when-snails-lose-their-way
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkSN-kqAmxw</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-tzEKwD7g</p>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:03:00 +0000Robert Krulwich42075 at http://kacu.orgWhen Snails Lose Their WayElemental Storytellinghttp://kacu.org/post/elemental-storytelling
There's a photograph I know that shows a kid's bicycle lying on its side, one wheel turned upright, a smear of blood tracing its path on the concrete. There's a little package still latched to the back, waiting for its owner to return. You can see where the bike swerved, then lost its way. Someone's been hurt. Or worse. The blood is still damp, the trail fresh. Whose blood was it? A child's, I imagine — from an accident? A shooting? The photo was taken by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/annieleibovitz">Annie Leibovitz</a> during a war in Yugoslavia.Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:44:00 +0000Robert Krulwich41943 at http://kacu.orgElemental StorytellingWhat A Balloon Shouldn't Do, But For Some Reason Doeshttp://kacu.org/post/what-balloon-shouldnt-do-some-reason-does
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mzDvpKzfY</p>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:03:00 +0000Robert Krulwich41731 at http://kacu.orgWhat A Balloon Shouldn't Do, But For Some Reason DoesHow To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweatinghttp://kacu.org/post/how-cross-five-international-borders-one-minute-without-sweating
So many nations are breaking up. Ukraine is in pieces. Moldova is teetering. Libya has no government to speak of. Sudan broke in two last year; now both sides are fighting. Yugoslavia is seven countries. Nigeria has a Christian/Muslim split. Syria has split so many ways it's barely there. Even Scotland is thinking of ditching Great Britain. With every break, we get new lines, new fences, new borders — further evidence of our failure to amalgamate, to get along.<p>The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars.Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:26:00 +0000Robert Krulwich41655 at http://kacu.orgHow To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweating